On Wednesday, July 1, Roosevelt Warm Springs Rehabilitation & Specialty Hospitals will commemorate its one year affiliation with Georgia Regents Health System with an on-site celebration for its employees. “Two years ago, the Governor invited us...
Georgia Regents Medical Center on-call chaplain Linda Hamilton knows exactly what to do should disaster strike in the hospital, at Georgia Regents University, in Richmond County or at her home. She’ll use the knowledge and skills she learned through...
Testimony concluded on Monday in the appeal hearing regarding Georgia Regents Medical Center’s certificate of need to build a hospital in Columbia County. The following is a letter from Shawn P. Vincent, Sr., GRU’s Vice President of...
The Children’s Hospital of Georgia gift shop, Ferns and Fossils, will be closed Friday, June 26 for maintenance. Ferns and Fossils will reopen Monday, June 29 at 9 a.m. In the meantime, please visit The Little Store on the 2nd floor of the hospital...
Summer is a time for adventure, fun, and making memories. For a lot of kids, that means heading off to summer camp for a few days. But not all children are fortunate enough, or healthy enough, to enjoy those summer days with their friends. Now, with...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Warmer days are here, encouraging outdoor activities such as swimming, walking, gardening, or even just being outside to soak up the sunshine. But exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet rays is the leading cause of skin cancer, says Dr...
The Memory Disorders Program is hosting the First Annual GRHealth Alzheimer’s Symposium on Saturday, June 27, 2015, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the J. Harold Harrison, M.D. Education Commons. This will be an all-day event with presentations...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Isabelle Green is counting down the days to Saturday. That’s when the eight-year-old, living with the challenges of arthrogryposis, will experience a day drenched in fun as GRHealth and Champions Made From Adversity team up again for...
The GRU Cancer Center was proud and pleased to host Dr. Nelido Gonzalez Fernandez this week. Dr. Gonzalez Fernandez serves as the Chief of Head and Neck at the National Institute of Oncology and Radiology of Cuba, Vice President of the Cuban Society...
As part of the Confucius Institute’s mission for building bridges between Georgia Regents University and China, four Chinese physicians from Nanjing are finishing up a three-month visit, looking at the differences in health care between the two...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Drowning is the number one killer of children under the age of 5. “What makes this statistic even more tragic is that these young children are more likely to drown in a residential swimming pool than in any other body of water,” said...
The Family YMCA of Greater Augusta and the Children’s Hospital of Georgia will break ground at 11 a.m. Monday, June 22, to kick off renovations at Camp Lakeside, a 100-acre camp located on beautiful Lake Thurmond. Camp Lakeside has long served...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The Board of Trustees of the Medical College of Georgia Physicians Practice Group Foundation, doing business as Georgia Regents Medical Associates, will meet at 5:30 p.m. Monday, June 22, in the Murphy Building, Pathology Conference...
The most selfless causes are those that become personal missions. Three Georgia Regents University physician assistant students showed the world just what selflessness means when they took it upon themselves to save the life a 15-year-old Ugandan...
When Dr. Caterina Hernandez, Assistant Professor in Pharmacology and Toxicology, returned to GRU after over a decade away, she found a lot had changed, not only with the school, but with herself as well. She’d only been living in Galveston, Texas...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of The Medical College of Georgia Physicians Practice Group Foundation, doing business as Georgia Regents Medical Associates, will meet at noon on Wednesday, June 10, on the fourth...
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The Boards of Directors of MCG Health Inc., doing business as Georgia Regents Medical Center, and MCG Health System Inc., doing business as Georgia Regents Health System, will meet Wednesday July 1, in room BI-2077. The Medical Center...
Purchase a Miracle Balloon for $1, $3, or $5 at local Publix Super Markets this month, and you can help make miracles happen at Children’s Hospital of Georgia, the local Children’s Miracle Network Hospital. The fundraising campaign will help with...
In January 2003, our health system and physicians practice group reached an agreement with Reynolds Plantation to provide primary, specialty, and subspecialty care to the 8,000-acre golf and lake community located between Augusta and Atlanta on the...
AUGUSTA, Ga- School is out for the summer, and many kids are already trying to figure out what to do with their free time. Though lounging around in front of the TV or computer seems to be a common pastime, recent studies show inactive kids...
